K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences

Happy fourth birthday

Four years seems like a long time. The first World War lasted four years. Four years is an American presidency. Four years is a cycle of Olympic sports, and World Cup championships. Most higher education systems are a four-year term: A person can leave secondary school and pass through tertiary education in that time. Four years is eight Ubuntu releases. There are lots of other things.

Add this blog to that list now. I am ashamed to admit that for four years now, I’ve jotted daily and sometimes more-than-daily notes about Linux, et al., to this site.

For better or for worse that means over 1,600 posts (I think this one is number 1,614), 8,500 comments and very nearly 2,000,000 page views (which unfortunately includes the spammers).

It’s been an interesting run — and don’t worry, it’s not finished yet. I don’t have a very high opinion of blogging, but I’ll admit that I’m not likely to quit soon. From the start this site was — and still is today — is a tool to remind me of things I did and how things worked, and I started it because it was the most obvious method at the time. If you also glean some benefit from it, then we are both lucky.

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19 thoughts on “Happy fourth birthday”

I love your blog. It’s a great read every time it floats into my RSS feed, because it reminds me that our new and fancy computer world isn’t so great after all, and that yesterday was (or is?) just as good.

Thanks for all the interesting articles.
I actually think because you were once a journalist and understand the flaws in blogging (oh-look-at-me syndrome) you are able to instead write basic informative work.
It’s what your readers love.
Hope to see 5 years soon!